Casinos and Nightlife

The Best 48 Hours in A.C.

How to spend your precious weekend in our very own Vegas-by-the-Sea

Two weeks ahead of time
Leave a dinner reservation request on the answering machine at Café 2825 (609-344-6913). Hope that your reservation is made, because you might not get a call back.

Friday
5:40 p.m. — Board NJ Transit. Who needs the buzz kill of weekend warrior traffic? The train is a straight $7.25, one-hour-40-minute shot from 30th Street to midtown. Yes, the trip takes longer than best-case-scenario driving, but a summer Friday at rush hour is never a best-case scenario. At the bottom of the stairs, hop an aqua jitney for a free ride to the Borgata, still the only place to

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